532 books
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378 voters
Violence Books
Showing 1-50 of 46,347
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 138 times as violence)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,853,903 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 92 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,131,640 ratings — published 2009
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 767,403 ratings — published 1962
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as violence)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,463,733 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as violence)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,699,417 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,007,465 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as violence)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,572,293 ratings — published 2016
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as violence)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,364,239 ratings — published 2011
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 641,092 ratings — published 1996
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as violence)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,186,504 ratings — published 1954
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 47 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,542,328 ratings — published 2023
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as violence)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,552 ratings — published 2010
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,148,889 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.26 — 984,100 ratings — published 2006
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,591,512 ratings — published 1967
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as violence)
avg rating 4.24 — 136,884 ratings — published 2017
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,724,895 ratings — published 1996
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,370,777 ratings — published 2012
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,618,816 ratings — published 2012
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 218,204 ratings — published 1985
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as violence)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,426 ratings — published 2007
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,715,147 ratings — published 2018
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 4.24 — 774,637 ratings — published 2007
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 34 times as violence)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,162,689 ratings — published 2020
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,435,774 ratings — published 2005
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 4.32 — 410,013 ratings — published 2016
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 3.80 — 360,531 ratings — published 1991
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as violence)
avg rating 4.16 — 473,744 ratings — published 2018
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.24 — 345,688 ratings — published 2015
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,979 ratings — published 1997
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,155,364 ratings — published 2016
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.27 — 754,553 ratings — published 2014
On Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 3.74 — 5,349 ratings — published 1970
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 3.94 — 870,523 ratings — published 2021
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.01 — 605,478 ratings — published 2023
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,846,549 ratings — published 2018
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,191 ratings — published 2009
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,664,508 ratings — published 2017
Raze (Scarred Souls, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.09 — 27,017 ratings — published 2014
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,965,060 ratings — published 2011
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,017,672 ratings — published 1998
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.17 — 245,424 ratings — published 2005
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,607,759 ratings — published 2025
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.07 — 590,089 ratings — published 2022
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,273,689 ratings — published 2015
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 3.78 — 122,555 ratings — published 2013
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,264 ratings — published 2018
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,676,021 ratings — published 2009
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 25 times as violence)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,005,630 ratings — published 2025
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as violence)
avg rating 4.06 — 443,485 ratings — published 2016
“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others












